Jay M. Johar is the music editor and contributor of the Bruneian publication, the Social, and is frequently involved with the Collective. He is also a contributor for Songket Alliance, the founder of Muzikaliti, and former writer for It's Raining Planes & Helicopters and Leeds-based Musical Mathematics.

He also holds a degree in English Language and Linguistic Science, graduating with upper second class honours from the University of York, UK. His passion for language now has him teaching English as a Second Language and Drama Educatipn at Sekolah Menengah Sayyidina Umar Al-Khattab, Brunei.

Jay is also a committee member of B:Read, a non-profit organisation that wants to help foster a vibrant reading culture in Brunei. In 2011, along with Zulfadly Osman, Timothy Lim, and Syahiran Leong, he co-founded the Movember Brunei movement.

In his free time, he makes music and illustrations, and reads all sorts of books. He also sometimes writes.